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Ikari, I was 100% ok with it when I first saw SL changes. I thought "ohh ok, going back to a standard..pulling 1 pack at a time, simple dungeon crawl...mobs are more nasty? that's fine no biggie"
and you'd see the highest completed keys drop down to where facetanking was the majority of it.
you really have NO control, honestly. Probably why bliz lost like, what, 45% of the player base so far.
Then we go live and it's "OH but there's a couple classes...sooooo..you just run around and let them blow it all up"
That's just standard expansion cycling
only WoTLK maintained the majority of people who came in for most of the Xpac
they say that, but this is actually the most they've lost this early in awhile.
I have used my skills as a great arteest to enhance your wise image
M+ as an end-game gameplay loop is also just uninteresting and unengaging in general for most of the playerbase
very nice, paw
You also had a global pandemic creating a massive surge in gaming
From a game design perspective, they haven’t done much to make people stay.
which has started dying down
Yeah true; it doesn't matter HOW good an expac is. A HUGE amount of people come back, play with their friends/family/alone/whatever...get their 'fun' hit whatever point they feel is too grindy, too hard..or too boring and quit.
WoW has followed a boom and bust curve for a while now, it’s just more extreme this time for the exact reason Ikari mentioned.
our guild got such a surge of new players in nyalotha when the pandemic started
I guess, I'm kinda waiting on New World, got like, what since beta in this game, and I'm getting kinda sick of it, not really having fun anymore.
can't seem to stop playing htough
I'm still actively playing but I took 2 weeks off essentially, and was raid logging only..to play valheim.
There’s no MMO that hits the same spot as WoW, nothing so far anyway. I’m hoping ashes of creation amounts to something but not holding my breath for it.
Everyone that touched new world really liked it; understanding that it was of course unpolished and had plenty of time left in the oven.
I could go play FFXIV, neither of my guilds are really going for mythic raid tier, and I have AOTC.
Ya ashes is rly the only one left on my radar.
Pantheon _ Rise of the Fallen is the other on mine.
I guess maybe I'm behind on new world news but they've reworked their systems a few times over now.
if it ever comes out, ashes seems like it's gonna be to PVP focus'd
New world is interesting but I wasn’t captivated at all by what I’ve seen from it. Seems like a run of the mill MMO that will die from content drought.
Like they set themselves up for unsustainability
there remaking the system due to customer requests though, so might work out.
New World - legit a Smedly Project, I'd soon invest in used toilet paper futures than in the idea that game will be worth playing
The thing is, wow is a good game
And what you're saying about M+ has always been true; and blizzard THEMSELVES killed the thing that made it even considerable as an end game loop..IE the quality of loot. The people left doing it, literally do it like...mostly for the vault, and then a VERY small portion of people left using a third party website/addon to turn it into a high end personal challenge.
People interact with MMO games way differently in 2021 than they did back when the genre was new.
It's not tho
We just play it because we're all masochists
It’s still the best mmo available
WoW is the standard, but it’s a pretty bad standard to be honest. Blizzard treats the game more often like a pump and dump than a passion project.
It's excellent, M raiding is fun, m+ and pvp with my guildies is fun.
You can tell they’ve lost the love for it over the years.
No; wow is ..? a very good mmo..the problem is MMO's have evolved, what people want has evolved..how companies provide their business model for an MMO has evolved..etc.
It's certainly different now than it was in vanilla
menace?
No
But there's still a big chunk of mmo players chasing a dragon; one they will never get back. The "omg I feel like I can play it forever..it'll never end.."
But its not a bad standard, its a super expansivegame which gives you a solid amount of grind/content to complete and hten keeps new content rolling out.
They've also mastered "reinventing the wheel" every Xpac, making just enough changes to classes so nothing gets stagnant.
I’ve tried a lot of them... warhammer, gw, swtor etc most of them failed at the endgame
Like if we’re content saying WoW is very good and couldn’t be made way better, we’re definitely settling for a sub-par product imo.
But that’s just my perspective.
Warhammer endgame was 100% PVP< the PVE stuff wasn't there at all.
SWTOR endgame was a single raid and incentiveless PVP
Failed massively
Saying something is very good is not the same as saying it can't be improved
If you're in your 20 sometthings. Hell your 30's even..and you started wow when you were a teenager, or just hitting 20'ish and it was your first mmo. You literally aren't the same person you were then, you will never EVER EVER get the same feeling you had playing it back then.
and you won't get it from ANY other mmo EVER either.
🧓
I was already old and bitter 25 year old when WoW hit my desk
some people say they've felt that way again after breaks. So your claim is just a claim
But companies keep trying to build a better mousetrap, because we keep coming back HOPING to chase that feeling again. You have honeymoon phase..the game is awesome/fun for X amount of time; and then it's done.
I had been through 5 years of Everquest already and wow just looked like clownshoes loot on rails
Idk, OSRS has a way of captivating me the same way it did back in 2004 whenever I load it up. That’s probably more to do with the visuals not changing though.
Breaks help, breaking out of the community slogfest and complaint circlejerks helps a lot as well.
This, is why I almsot always skip the *.2 patches
Shadowlands is in almost every facet an improvement over BfA, so I’ll just be content with that.
Same..I've been doing mmo's since they've existed, literally. For me..it's Everquest. It was the greatest video game I've ever played, and ever will play in my life..period. Nothing will ever be as addictive, as all consuming as EQ was..ever again.
But at this stage before the next tier releases, I have almost no reason to ever log in.
Mwahi the Wise says "it's a game, play how you want to"
Then again, cleaning your floor is an improvement over a pile of dogvomit so, low bar and all that.
What do you expect? There’s a reason why it’s called gaming >industry<. They want to make money out of it. Blizz isn’t some smol indie company even if they act like one sometimes.
Idk I kind of disagree with that notion
If blizzard wanted to make the most money possible they’d just continually service fans.
But they don’t do that
Erm
They go whale hunting
wat
I have no space for more buttons! 🙂
"I don't think they're out to just make money"
It's funny, looking back at Everquest.. I sat in Guk..6, 10+ hours..way more than that..PER DAY. as an ogre warrior..pulling frogs then hitting ONE button to start auto attack, and ONE button to 'slam' (or kick, or bash if you were a smaller race) that was IT. that was the ENTIRE gameplay
who? blizzard? bullshit
pushing up a yellow/orange xp bar...tiny tiny TINY amounts at a time.
They’re definitely out to make money, but they’re not maximizing profit in a way that’s sustainable or even optimal imo.
and I LOVED it, had way more fun than anything wow has ever had.
sunwell was pretty fun
I hated ogres in guk, fat fuck.
DUDE that's why you got the dark elf skin mask bro..so you could cast the illusion and shrink yourself~
"TRAIN INc....crap theres a shaman trying to get through Deadside, GUESS WE'LL ALL DIE THEN!"
feel like there was a time around 2001-2004 where "spending your life online" was a thing everybody (edit: many/some) expected to be the future. Like second life.
That idea has disappeared almost completely. Maybe due to smartphones?
Or just be Darkelf master race to begin with
But yes; until I got that mask...I literally b locked hallways.
I mean, it says a lot about a personal mindset when you convince yourself that clicking three buttons is more fun than mythic Sludgefist.
I started EQ in 99, way ahead of that curve
Nostalgia/simpler times
I remember I was in Kunark on an iksar monk when the twin towers got hit.
I still go back to EQ TLPs because its like, zen meditation for me
Trixter, there's tons of reasons for it. But yeah..that was the idea of the MMO; it never ended..you never 'won' you were chasing shit forever, and building that character...forever.. When they launched Everquest they had ? No concept of when the game would 'end' or servers would shut down..or how they'd even ? move forward other than..more content and expansions. But you kept growing THE SAME character with the same stats/abilities.
that gamplay is 100% muscle memory and I can just chill and chat with people.
Just more overall positivity in communities as well
You obviously didn't play on Fennin Ro
And the world as a whole
Yeah my account is still there but it's owned by? isn't it owned by the company that owns like..? PUBG?
or something?
daybreak
Kekbreak
I went back and played like...? a year or two ago..for a couple months.
Darkpaw Games
had like? 8000 AA points or some shit LOL
just got sold to some other company
yeah. And I feel like the world has grown away from that idea. It's no longer attractive. I think that relates to the way wow has evolved.
the rumor is daybreak is comming out with a nother EQ, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
a friend played my original warrior for years after I quit, has like 27000 or something goofy now
no, it's after they split, it's not eq nextr
EQN...N?
Daybreak sold Darkpaw
Still though, to this DAY... AA points are the best character progression system I've ever seen in an mmo; and I wish it was a thing still.
or something
i fucking despised AA's
Grindgrindgrind
luclin was so shit coming off of velious
AA points were the "loot treadmill" of a game that had restricted access to loot
I say...that I want it back; but at this age now, the way games just ARE now? I'd probably hate it.
Dude no AA points were amazing.
I hate it every TLP, I last until AAs get out of hand in DoDH
MMOs are cost-prohibitive, and the development time is so long and expensive that it just doesn’t meet the curve that people expect in today’s age. Like I was saying earlier it’s the kind of boom and bust we see now.
Your character grew in strength, just by playing..all the time..killing mobs. That's what ya' do~ kill stuff.
Where a new expansion or content release sees huge expansion and then an immediate and steep fall off.
Playerauctions blog?
I wouldn't even count on that to be remotely factual
Hell, I hardly trusted that site to sell my accounts
I sold my RS3 main on that site 
And the idea of contested bosses, with the best loot AMAZING. But? I don't think I could stomach it any more.
For like 350 USD
65 Time geared necro $2500 during GoD
bought my ass a new computer to play EQ2 on (ended up being WoW)
But the idea of a raid zone being an elemental plane, and it being ...super hard, and the boss just shits in your face; because you simply have to gear up..and grind up..2000 AA points, or you will just get dookied on. Is fine by me.
I used the money to buy a new graphics card, was dope.
They didn't give a shit how hard the content was; they never built it for 'everyone' to experience.
EP bosses were single groupable when PoP first came out
Yeah but the older content wasn't.
legit 2 enchanters 2 clerics a ranger and a necro got first clear in PoFire on Fennin Ro 😄
aa farm was just me afking in a party while two warriors w/ the eq weapon in plane of fire farmed aa's for me
Lord nagafen, Lady Vox...at EQ launch. Were LEGIT mythic creatures. People weren't sure they were in the game
I mean, you could walk up a ramp and see Naggy
vox wasn't that deep into permafrost either
ANd when people killed them, they were bind rushing..naked..throwing themselves at a dragon to kill it.. like..80 people+
online databases changed a lot about the conversation of games
think i found her on a like level 13
you could see through the walls by ducking on short races
Right; but where were you talking about that? locally IN game
Vox was literally through a room with 5 level 25~ goblins, and just poking your head into a cubby
¯_(ツ)_/¯
or MAYBE posting on Allakhazam if you were trying to help the community.
Anyway #protection
Early internet; different time..different everything. So a game so simple it was legit running around and then pushing 1 button to fight...was a ton of fun.
yup, big 3d version of D&D
And casters..? Looking at a book to get your mana back..literally.
like..WHAT?
the concept of that now is insane.
i remember concerned confusion the first time I had to control a game with wasd instead of arrow keys
"how do you play a caster in Everquest?" "you cast a spell..a bunch of times" "cool..then what?" "then you sit, and a book fills your screen and you do nothing" "then what" "that's the game..you're doing it"
Halflife
think I'ma play some blackmesa when I get home
Clerics..best healers in game? What did they do? Complete heal chain..."casting Cheal...Next player in 8 seconds.." "/sit"
^ literally raiding in everquest.
whoah whoah...that's WAY too advanced.
yup lol
reminds me of the way CTraid in early wow communicated with other CTraid addons
The idea even, of a mob that hits more than 1 person at a time. ANY mob that did that, was a raid boss. only raid bosses did it.
most difficult tanking mechanic - setting up Rampage lists
nix that, most difficult tanking mechanic - mobs being pushed by dozens of pets
Kunark had flurry/rampage
Yeah kunark was it..ok so 1 xpac in.
VP
I don't see how eternal exp grinding was any kind of "best"
Takamura; it was a different time as I said. However; it's because it gave (at the time) the concept of INFINITE character growth. Without equipment.
Let the boomers reminisce
AA points were true character power, and at the time..maxing them was? not even a thing you were considering ever would happen.
AAs were cancer past PoP
OoW hit and I was like "Oh I legit need to spend 400% the time on this 'alternate' system than I did actually getting my 5 levels"
WoW has never had anything comparable, in a very small way you might make a parallel to azerite necklace power, or the legion artifact power...maybe?
WoW's AAs are legit the loot treadmill
SO, yeah, it kinda does
its incremental growth in character power, thye just did it better than Everquests "Sit here for 14 hours and kill the same 27 mobs repeatedly"
You could make hte argument that any sort of currency that allows you to control character growth is on par with AA systems
If WoW had anything like AA points, it would be ? patched out of the game..or made purchasable at a faction vendor or something. Because sweaty's would grind SO hard, no one else could possibly compete in ANY way. it would shatter PVP, competitive raiding..M+..etc.
like, Valor?
Not any more than minmaxing loot
But again, I need to stop giving in 😛
#protection
I have the following trinkets, which should I use for mythic+ and raiding.
213 glutt
200 Al'ar
207 bladedancer
197 anima field
220 power crystal
213 macabre
Anima field and powercrystal?
It is though. There's a lottery system to that, and you will only get it so fast..and every tuesday even the casuals have a shot at an item of the same strength you have. AA's are pure linear Time = Power..and the grinds some players would find a way to do in WoW would be DISGUSTING.
Right now I'm running glutt and Al'ar for mythic+, debating what to run for raids.
Glut/field for raid...or Glut/power
Guys it's ok to admit that a modern game is different than something you did 30 years ago. It won't marginalize your past achievements.
no, and the 213 is 'eh' the 226 actually is very good.
It's not about marginalizing them; it's about why they just can't have that system again.
Who cares
It was a bad system, is why they don't want that system.
I feel like glut for raid is pointless, as it does so little damage
Right, so use AFE
197 field > 213 macabre?
Yeah; and you likely don't 'need' the healing in raid near as much..
just vendor it
It sims higher for me for fury
its a trap
Why?
because the ghosts can (and will frequently) spawn outside of melee range
Macabre is not a trap; it simply has the same problems other things do; like reprisal... (to a lesser degree) Do you wanna go through the work/irritation of DOING the thing to make it work.
So for single target/raids use Al'ar and anima or power crystal.
Macabre is much worse though; because now you're moving a boss in raid...for your haste.
Al'ar is if you don't trust your healers
I love reprisal, I intervene melee a ton.
So for raids I can see that.
I am still Kyrian/Pelagos...and I FKN HATE IT on sludgefist right now. On the pillar charges I'm waiting until the chain on us breaks for a few seconds so I can collect my FKN ORBS.
and during normal phases I'm having to seperate from cotank to collect them; usually not an issue but sometimes is.
Reprisal is the best for raiding too? Hmmm
Almost all "spawns a thing near you, collect it for powerup" are irritating/problematic as a tank or dps to use.
The best one they've ever made IMO was the goblet of ichor in emerald nightmare. The globs moved TO YOU
It's rare I can't charge a fee times in a raid. Especially like sludgefist it's amazing for. Also intervene your tank if they are getting low.
you intervene your co tank on sludge your health may be an issue
So he's not wrong in saying macabre is a trap; it's honestly a very powerful trinket but you will constantly run into annoying moments where utilizing it is either difficult, or impossible without honestly sacrificing the integrity of the combat encounter for it.
So sad the guy who writes the wowhead guy changed Necrolord from 'excellent' to just 'good' now 😦
was it llarold
Waiving my slightly sadder banner now
the snitch
I run necro anyway, it's really fun for fury.
did they nerf it?
no
Just to try it, and have fun with something new..and maybe find utility in it; I'd go necrolord if the swapping covenants wasn't a dumpster fire.
I swapped to necro 3days ago
it's not bad, but yeah swapping covs is ass
it blows my mind how covenants got through alpha
but if this was my main, I wouldnt of swapped
The only scenario I see myself swapping away from Necro is if I switch my DK to Necro, my paladin to Venthyr, and my War to NF
that's the other issue, I have 4 60s, 1 of each cov
No it's good, all the covenants right now ..for prot warrior are? solid choices for various reasons in various situations. With Venthyr probably being the worst where other covenants PURELY for prot warrior are better in most every way, in most situations.
by the time shadowlands ends most classes will have better covensnts
whether it be 9.1, 9.2 or 9.3
How does everyone feel about the ToP and Plaguefall dungeon buffs now?
it's shortsighted shit from blizzard, as per
oh LOL? buffing dungeons now?
no I mean the 3 banners in ToP or the buffs from slime in Plaguefall
The necrolord buffs in ToP
I like necro, channel flesh craft with another CD up is nice.
they're pretty hot
I channel flesh craft a fair bit for not attacking damage
I'd swap if I wasn't addicted to my powdery glitter blue explosion
Jesus blizz "we notice that a high % of keys in these dungeons don't get completed...we're addressing that" "you guys are completing these dungeons now, nice...now we're addressing that" ?! BRUH?
Im talking about the Cov bonuses, not dungeon difficulty
altho fuck those roc in pf
ok; I honestly didn't even put it past blizz..not even for ONE second.
what'st he goto talent setup, idk what I'm doing for m+
Roll a 3 sided die and whatever it lanes on is what you should run
😛
oof
3 1/2 2 2 3 1
if you want to be boring, but yea, thats probably the best XD
witch legendary should we wear for prot for mythic dungeons
reprisal
Reprisal or The Wall
The wall, now who's being boring
Hey man, its a option
I run reprisal, but The Wall is a alternative should you prefer it
Seismic if you wanna make your DPS cry
Now thats a spicey option
I do wonder if theyll add more legos to the pool
yea, thats what im hoping they dont do
The best way to do it is with 1-2 other people
it used to be a challenge when I was in like, 180 gear
almost
Why would I punish myself by doing it with a group?
Well, I have friends so we do it together
when I can finish it in 30minutes by just trucking from entrance to exit
I have friends too, and they can learn how to ignore anima powers and kill bosses like I do
makes it less boring, and they easily pull their weight
naw, I like getting powers
but i usually dont go out of my way for them
"temporary power boost, its like a new expansion hits every time you finish!"
: ^)
ever since they started placing "lore" reasons on borrowed power they've gotten out of control
In Legion we had super cosmic artifact weapons
which got drained, and we were sad
then it was the blood of the planet, OH and then the blood of an old god
layered borrowed power MY FAVORITE TYPE, Like Neapolitan icecream.
I miss the glory days of corruption and my full vers set 🙂
Meanwhile, Sylvannas does evil stuff
I mean, we've learned right? Don't go directly for the big bad, cut their source of power first.
Btw what covenants are BiS for tanking M+?
yes?
Borrrowed Powers Are so boring imo
Why I'm glad prot is pretty stronk without any additional
my new warrior is going to not pick a covenant
They all have their merits. Choose one you like best.
NF for fairy pumpers, Necrolord for the simps, Kyrian for the unimaginative, Venythr for the dungeon buffs
NF is big 
theyre all good
220 power crystal and 197 anima field is my best choice right? Or as a tank for raids should I swap out power crystal for macabre?
they are all strong; The only reason I didnt go NF was the Necrolord Tmog on point, and dungeon buffs (I also dont like Ardenweald and like Maldraxxus cause I'm edgy like that)
no
vendor macabre
keep power crystal and AFE
NF is just not me so its Necro/Kyr
Yeah, like the Manowar in me wants to go Necrolord
but I'm so addicted to 
You really hate macabre lol
Reskin Ancient Aftershock for Necrolord and no one is a fairy
that trinket is ass
its bad
could rename it God Stomp and have our character throw up the devils horns when we do it.
What about bladedancer.
even worse
I was actually thinking they should have just given us Xav the Unfallen slam abilities as our Cov one
So bank it?
Equip it for mythic sire? Got it!
if you want
Go to Dazar Alor to the scrapper, scrap it for Explosum, then vender that explosum
trinkets all in all are quite sad
it won't make or break you
but if you can wear it for MSire
do so
and meme the crap out of it.
does that legit work?
I mean, I don't think so
Not sure
but if I can scrap stuff for bits in BFA
But its probably the best place to bring that trinket
Best place to bring that trinket is just Shift click when you loot SD chests and if the trinket is in there, leave it, and let it rot for 30 days in your mailbox
I had a 210 blood-spattered scale drop. Vendored that shit soo fast. Was hoping for an quantum device.
Why would you do that 😭
He's obviously joking
It's useless?
Shhh
When looking at trinkets for m+, do you guys just go for dmg after getting a scale? Feeling pretty safe with reprisal now.
damage is the way to go yes.
I don't trust my healers so you'll rip my heart out of my cold unbeating chest
Yea, tank trinkets are quite bad overall. I will say Alar still has a place should you feel the need or are pushing content you arent comfortable with; but it shouldnt be the go to for content you know you can do
it'll explode probably taking 2 of your DPS with you
but yeah alar comes out when I PUG
ride together die together
This is why i love Necrolord; sitting in my cheat for 10 seconds letting my whole group know that I died
of course, they never believe me.... but sometimes the shaman/druid listens and is ready to drop the trees/stone boi down
THen you have tanks who use dreamweaver
I just flat out leave high keys when the druids dont have trees skilled
I dont even understand that one
legit facepalmed when I saw a guardian druid go into his little seedpod
LEL
Trees are a DPS gain
Podtender is the best, you get to sit there are let the healer truly understand the weight of their fuck ups
no they're not
i dont NEED trees
for you they are
its just running away then
YOU DID THIS NOW SUFFER
Trees are professional play
If the content is EZ, I dont ask for trees.
for the 100times I've said this playing boomkin, trees are optional
just like a prot warrior is for a "serious" tank

wat
But they are incredibly strong no matter what tank is being played
my perfect group is 4boomkin in resto affinity and me tanking
They give the tank the opportunity to do dmg themselves
what stat do we put on reprisal feet legendary
haste/vers
Haste+vers
you wanna make legs
o kk
225 
I made seismic at the same time
10ilvls on a lego isn't a big deal, as long as you have the lego
*deeply regrets upgrading wall to rank 4 just before reprisal changes went in
since I haven't touched TW in raid since
WHat do you guys think of Night Fae covenant for Prot warrior? I'd think I would like to be able to soulshape on my slow ass warrior
all covs are good
druid being slow?
Unless you're in feral affinity yeah
Yeah I understand Kyrian and Necro are top, but Night Fae tat far behind is?
even then
Necro not top
SpaceGhost didn't you literally ask this question like 5x over the past week?
pretty sure you've asked this like every day
No I have not
I would put NF=Kyrian>=Necro>Venthyr
it's been a slow 3days at the necrolord base, no other warriors
Necro is if you're a simp or have a concrete group that benefts from it

Yeah and I dont have aa grp
so, Kyrian or NF will feel better overall
Cool, plus I get to soulshape into a turtle
go Venthyr if you wanna be all emo and slap single target
is heavy repercussions still bad compared to the other 2 options, even with reprisal?
I hate Revendrath though
yea, if you dont have a group, or dont play with a consistent group of people, then Necro is not worth
I mean, yeah, if turtles are your thing.
Compared to Bolster + The Wall and AM + reprisal, it just doesnt offer enough value
HR is too RNG reliant to provide serious value
both AM and Bolster offer greater gains in RPS and damage
Fairs
yeah HR is one of those talents they could make baseline for QoL
AM pls
isn't hr worse w/ reprisal becuase the extra extended shield block uptime is less impactful
Yes
fury and arms have it 
hell, give us HR baseline, and bring back Glad Stance XD
Arms doesn't even use AM
heck fury doesn't either in most situations
No glad stance plz
listen here, i dont know about those damage dealing specs
glad stance 👀
yeah, thats true (I had been doing it, just not thinking it)
fury has garbage tier 50 talents right? except am
So does arms If they are venthyr
ehhhhh
thought arms love dreadnaught
SB and Reckless are not horrible
fury tier 50 are all good
Venth arms runs rav to feed condemn windows
Arms loves dreadnaught in pvp and ravaged in pve
I wonder if instead of extending SB by 1 sec, if HR reduced the CD of SB by 1 sec if it would be better
ic ic ic
Naw non venth arms uses dread @grave crane
Runs ravager so your Bladestorm doesn't eat into Condemn windows
That's exactly what I said @uneven mason
feeding condemn and just not interrupt them are 2 diff things 😛
I used dreadnuaght in pvp as venthyr and it worked great
yeah DN is the play in some content
Because I used BS to immune CC
like M+ you don't use rav
Here we go again splitting hairs
rav is for ST
Dread for aoe
DN also feels amazing, which is the true WoW endgame
No, thats not a technicality Dosqueis, that's literally saying 2 different things.
I separated them for pvp and pve
Hey waht do you guys think of the Night Fae covenant for Prot?
jesus christ
👍
night fae is poggers
Dude seriously
interesting
damnit
LEL
Shit or get off the pot
???
@mossy sluice the detective

xD Just messing with you man
Perhaps he thinks there's more than like a dozen of us in here
LOL more than a dozen protwarriors
I might go venthyr
How else would I end up being #9 at something on my server
when theres only 10 of us
So your telling me rav isn't cast during condem windows for rage gen then?
Thats more of a arms questions
lol Ive asked about night fae cause I just saw a video on youtube which uploaded today. no way ive been asking for days
The only thing we concern ourselves over here with is how hard our revenge is hitting
night fae is very good damage
its not really revenge if it hits soft
Huh
Wat
No
Griff didn't you go Venthyr?

feels inconsequential
Coward
the mog isnt even good????????
Plus I got an enhance shaman so I'd be dumb to not play arms for certain bosses
weapons too
Ooo you have a simp to support you
carry on then
I can imagine Griff "Totem slave, place my Windfury 👉 there".

so where can I find one these 'totem specialists?'
ebay
ewww, no prime delivery
How does reprisal affect gearing in m+? Wasnt crit King couse u didnt have full uptime on Block. And now u do. Is vers=haste gonna be king now?
Its always been Haste-Vers
crit was never king
Crit is for chad pumpers
I was sure it was couse thats what i read like 2months ago before i took break from warrior :p maybe i remembered wrong
But thx for clarifying ^^
Yea remembering wrong lol
for venth. which soul bind. nadjia?
This
nadjia is great yeah
I suppose its relative
Venthyr mog just FITs odd, like the "Wing" bits just protrude at stupid angles
you're not supposed to use the wings :/
i honestly dont understand how armor still clips when it's brand new
lol
have you tried gnome?
everything clips
shoulders are gigantic
and shields too close
i tried worgen with the venth rogue, i had no left shoulder
only the gigantic shields work for gnomes
Forget the sets, sinful glad set best set
so legendary shield and bulwark
yep sinful glad is amazing
but still ckips
clips
i tried mechagnome, it was....different...
lol mechagnome wear no pants
sinful glad is actually pretty fucking sick i really like it
if you dont have heritage mechagnome armor, just stop
gnome heritage armor is actually really sweet
Imagine playing alliance
imagine following meta xD
poggies
Feels like running around in a daycare over there
Imagine imagining
Been horde since 2004 back when alliance were OP
i'm both
2004 xD xD
back when the game was balanced
tbc was the first expac, and that was 05
are you sure
about that
buddy
07
man memory.... kill me plz
Now you got it
January 16, 2007
but yeah faction imbalance wasn't a thing back then it was quite good and mostly dependant on the realm anyway
nowadays faction imbalance is a real problem
kick, torrent, kick, fear, kick, stun, kick .... yeah
TBC was 07~
we had no Xpacs for 2 years 3~ months basically
was crazy coming from other MMOs 6 month cycle
October 28–29 - BlizzCon 2005 (the first BlizzCon)
Burning Crusade announced
basically shut down a lot of raiding guilds prior to naxx
because people thought the Xpac was right around the corner
sad times
Let's be real
I think a lot of those raiding guilds wouldn't have gone anywhere back then

🤡
Is Viscera of Coalesced Hatred shitter than shit?
its not that shit but its quite shit
So it's half a shit ok
its a shart
I like how the mistweaver is talking
new to tanking, what addon do you use for routes? MDT?
yea
still farming the DoS trinket so i only have that / [Stone Legion Heraldry] and the Miasma one atm
yeah mdt
yep
awesome, thanks alot. any prefernce to the rout with no skips v skips?
depends on the group
the skip routes are quite good often, but not every group can do them
for pugs I'd go with the no skip
but in dungeons like HoA that means you can't set up prides for 2nd and 3rd boss
hrmm, ok
i have KSM as dps. is it worth going skip routs considering that level of keys
usually when I run a 15+ with my guild we take the 5-10 minutes before the run
and talk over the route
itll be mostly pugs for me
skip routes are not that hard tbh, but I don't trust pugs
and only for things like HoA tyrannical I'd say it's a must
there you usually do 2 skips
you skip the bridge
and the first pack after the gauntlet
but after 2nd boss you clear the whole ring instead
also, I HATE PUGS
do yourself a favor, if you have the gear, don't go below 10ß
setting up pride properly is important
yeah i figured id try to find some 10-12s
im 221 in my prot gear
just feel nervous bout the routes so want to start small
routs change at 10
routes don't get harder though
routs literally don't matter below 10
you can basically RP walk through a dungeon spamming revenge in 9 and below
damn, just looked at our lady tries from last night.... haven't eaten a single ghost in our best try xD I was soooo not seeing some of them when the 3rd adds came up xD guess I got lucky xD
yeah thats why ill start at 10+ but i feel like if i went into a 15 wouldnt be good as im used to dpsing
anyone has some tips to see the ghosts during adds better?
sound
its directional iirc
srsly
*gasp
*puts headphones on
ty
will give it a try
how will they behave in terms of 1st ghost/2nd ghost?
also, ghosts targeting you are red.
so is literally fucking everything else in that room
I don't have problems seeing the ghosts themselves xD just when adds are up the same moment
Ghosts give me PTSD to mythic jadefire
Get plater and have it color the nameplates of the ghosts a weird ass color
the ghosts can have plates?
nope
haha lol
Shut up nerds
can't even target them can you?
*shuts up
I thought u meant spiteful
nah we talkin lady
Sound is best for those, or just an annoying WA
It doesn't, it just tells you when to expect the strikes
Legit found out 2 of my raiders in Mythic Dazalor were keyboard turners due to Jadefire masters
I have some problems with the overlap just on the 3rd adds, as I get the cast just the moment after I pulled her between the adds
not looking forward to that again
So when it pops you tell your smooth brain to track the drops rather than tunneling on the adds n other distractions
3rd adds (2nd adds if you skip firsts)
worked last night... but was sooo unreliable for my feeling, even though I didn't mess up
but gonna give the sound method a try
xD
Deflect blame
the angle you can turn towards them is pretty large as well
fiddle with your colorblind settings until it seperates the shades of red.
nah I help out our healers with SW
Same thing
if you know you're going to get trucked because (bad) for a mechanic
SW is there for you.
our DPS are having some big problems dealign with the orbs ... and I don't wanna mess up the one good killshot we have
watched our dh tank get 4 stacks and i hate having 2.
tattoos
nah if you hold SW for when you mess up you're not playing to your ability
I prefer to use SW when a healers is running
Obviously
If you reliably mess up at the same spot every time its rotational.
#logic
trust in the force luke
yeah she's dark xD
we got her to 10% just before the first double bounce
at 4:50 or so
o
CANT SOAK MUST TUNNEL DPS, THEY SAID IT WAS A DPS RACE, CAN"T SOAK, DPS LOSS!
And
if the orbs are up
like, oof, so like, that's what ya'll need to be quick on
figure out the long end
quick
Yeah you're still in wipe territory under 5% if your dps tunnels
Legit seen kills where the NL suit of armor is the only thing left standing
that was our first kill
Lady D is in a league of her own
We killed her on pull 12 but reclear was frustrating af
yes AM
lol can I plz has your group? xD xD
ty
Why is it like, some bosses, my poor guild for example, killed our first HCArtificer in 3 pulls - continually wipes on him 3x for the next several weeks.
33 pulls on HC Council - legit one shot every time since our first kill.
Could be worse we like 80 pulls in on council
yeah but council looks like a way harder boss
I just think guilds trying to do Nek 3rd are just asking to be ass slapped
well I have 0 XP on council so far
some tries on artificer and I can see myself falling asleep on that one
it makes 0 sense to do him in that order with spending so much time dealing with his adds.
Eh
Higher guilds disagree
I guess
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
if you have pumpers DPS
think you need pumpers w/ frieda last as well
I've had to accept that my DPS will never pump
yeah if you can beat the DPS check
It's just ass because you have to waste so much time getting to the last phase to actually prog
Frieda is the least pumpers intensive of the councilmembers
@uneven mason I think your still pump more than mine
haha same here...
they nerfed the fight and various adds multiple times though
We didn't kick them - they just happened to be the only 2 people left in the old guild that we all abandoned.
Tell me about it, had 6 people call out on tuesday
i think not-niklaus last is not trolling anymore
They also nerfed the vanguards so idk
yea
yeah if the vanguard is nerfed than, probably just need non flipperhanded DPS
I'll findout in (2 weeks past when I get 20 people consistently)
i mean i still think niklaus last is the best but also there's no point changing it if you've already killed it
so February 30th
i think you just prog killing first vanguard in 100-50 phase now and the dps check is only really in the 50-0 push to kill before your tanks die
today i learned you can upgrade gear in your covenants too
Nik last is actually a joke once your dps figures out it's a prio dps fight and not an aoe pad
Cuz some people dont understand mechanics still
Dark recital right as the vanguard drops
Granted you need tanks that are somewhat competent, and a pally rly helps
always
if your guild likes council, they're gonna love SLG
We NeEd To GrOuP bAcK uP aNd FiGuRe OuT hOw To DeAl WiTh ThAt
Unironically doesn't know that you just need to group back up with the one person you're tethered to

We are on mythic sludge now; just got to wait while ions guild catches up so he can nerf it for himself 🙂
Crazy fight
"If you love chewing glass, then you'll love this 👉 *shows a donkey dryhumping a cactus"
that close eonugh with Council to SLG?
accurate
council is not near as bad as slg imo
right
tanking is boring on both fights
"ok guys everyone focus the goliath this time while 2 of us clean up skirmishers"....skirmishers die before goliath...k then
Dunno, I like it
tanking hc slg is annoying, cant wait for mythic
i learned everything i needed to about slg in about 50 pulls, including the time it takes to get comfy with it
90% of that fight is DPS priority damaging and not dying to dumb shit
I'm progging SLG with reprisal for funs
My DPS don't understand the concept of "Stop standing on the tanks plz"
"oh another laceration stack, thanks #DKwhoisoutofpositionagain"
i wouldn't be so mad at the fact that slg exists
if there weren't THREE 9-10 minute fights in the same tier
almost back to back
that's just goofy
Council - SLG - SIre
yeah its hard to make progress on the final phase when it takes you 6 minutes to get there.
at least you have Sludge in the middle there
which is easy to know when you're going to kill him or not
solved that just running far out to the side during wicked blade, nobody gets hit ever
yeah no I Mean, there is a DK who stands in the wrong spot when not targeted by wicked blade
so it splashes everyone in melee
what a king
eh, we worked through it
So I've been thinking about switching covenants...
fixed it
Howdy, whats the recommended talent build for mythics if you go with The Wall? Dont have the soul ash for reprisal.
run Bolster and BV
crackling is trash now that you fill with tc
Anger is fine with all legendary
i swapped to bounding
tanking slg is honestly not that bad now
0.5 convince anyone to switch covenants?
but the fight overall is pretty horrible to progress for the whole raid ofc
been fae since start of expansion
I'm brand new to prot. Does ravager yield more dps than unstoppable force + anger mgmt. I feel like I have avatar up all the time and push tons of aoe dps rotating between tclap and revenge w/ best served cold. Some of those may not relate to each other, idk, just like theory crafting the aoe dps potential
I don't like UF
it's either itf or ravager for me
I often don't even have the time to Tclap with all the slam resets anyway xD
UF feels bad man
Gotcha. I'm a noob tank so maybe I'm not slamming everytime it resets lol thanks
To put it plainly, Revenge hits harder than TC even under UF buffing, TC eats up a ton of GCDs, which creates an opportunity cost, both in spending rage in Revenges ( which cycles Avatars CD faster) and the fact that you're missing out on free damage (ravager)
Easier to kit with ravager 2
it was from start of the expansion
U never pug
before some of the dangerous packs were nerfed
Makes sense. Thanks dudes
I mean, the 2 caster packs in DoS were the only 2 I ever felt I "Had" to kite
Hehe pretty much
why would you kite casters?
you LOS
yeah
hit SW/SR/DS slap damage into it for 5 seconds, and leap down stairs
just like so
YUP
what is the best covenant now for prot warriors guys ?
all around kyrian is still best
what is the bannar u are talking about right now ?

NECROBRO
literally roll a D4
I personally play kyrian and like it
Wish Condemn didn’t suck so much
but NF is just as viable
I like heal phial aswell always handy as
k
Necrolord, kyrian, and Night Fae are all competative
Kyrian/NF are going to be solid in all situations
annoying since venth is best for off spec
necrolord is just harder to use as its more about powering up your party and have to cordinate CDs
enduring blow build that is
so annoying having an off spec though, changing conduits etc does my head in lol
that's why NF is so fun
Niya for prot raid
korayn for M+ fury
Podweaver for Arms PvP
makes sense i guess :p
why podweaver in PVP?
they can still kill you in that.
Emeni for prot and Maralyn for Arms pvp
yeah and if they don't you get a free life
if you run with a pally heal it is
like Niya, 12% (minimum) max HP and 10%ish mastery for 30s
One more thing they have to deal with
And I think you can BoP the pod and stuff



